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Tony Award winning actress Alice Ghostley, most famous for roles on Bewitched and Designing Women died Friday after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes. She was 81.
She earned a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her various characterizations in The Beauty Part in 1963, & won the award in 1965 for Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. She had roles in the films To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, and Grease.
In Television, she was best known as Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice Clifton on Designing Women, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She also guest-starred on many shows from the 60s through the 80s. She was on nearly every sitcom in the 70s and 80s.. she was one of those actresses I'd see in something and say.. "I know her from somewhere," because I'd seen her in a hundred other things.
I've always had an affinity for character actors, and she was one of the best.. my favorite role she ever played was the role of Elinor Callender in the Tales from the Darkside epsiode "Anniversary Dinner"... there was not a creepier, more disturbing character on TV in 1985 than the woman she played in that episode.
Though she hadn't acted since 2004, this is still a huge loss. She was always a delight, whether she was playing ditzy Esmeralda or creepy Mrs. Callender.
"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue. My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress. But I also knew I'd find a way." ~ Alice Ghostley, 1926-2007
She earned a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her various characterizations in The Beauty Part in 1963, & won the award in 1965 for Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. She had roles in the films To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, and Grease.
In Television, she was best known as Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice Clifton on Designing Women, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She also guest-starred on many shows from the 60s through the 80s. She was on nearly every sitcom in the 70s and 80s.. she was one of those actresses I'd see in something and say.. "I know her from somewhere," because I'd seen her in a hundred other things.
I've always had an affinity for character actors, and she was one of the best.. my favorite role she ever played was the role of Elinor Callender in the Tales from the Darkside epsiode "Anniversary Dinner"... there was not a creepier, more disturbing character on TV in 1985 than the woman she played in that episode.
Though she hadn't acted since 2004, this is still a huge loss. She was always a delight, whether she was playing ditzy Esmeralda or creepy Mrs. Callender.
"I knew I didn't look like an ingenue. My nose was too long. I had crooked teeth. I wasn't blond. I knew I looked like a character actress. But I also knew I'd find a way." ~ Alice Ghostley, 1926-2007